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The Really Small Bad Day Almanac: May 18

1896: In Moscow, 1,389 people die in a mass panic during festivities celebrating the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II.
1927: At a school in Bath, Michigan, 47 seven people, mostly children, die in the explosion of bombs planted by a disgruntled employee.
1980: Fifty-seven people die in the eruption of Mount St. Helens in the state of Washington.

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